26th Generation
33554432 Iorwerth Hên Of Pengwern AP OWAIN.  Born abt 1170. Iorwerth Hên Of Pengwern died bef 1254. AKA: Hên = The Elder. Occupation: Seneschal & Chief Councillor To Prince Madog Ap Gruffydd.

Web Notes: orwerth Hên (that is to say, Iorwerth the elder) of Pengwern, son of Owain, son of Bleddyn (1) son of Tudur, son of Rhys Sais, was born, in all probability, close to the year 1170, or perhaps a little later.
Nanheudwy, with the remainder of Northern Powys, passed into the hands of Prince Madog, the son of Maredydd, who died in 1159. Gruffydd Maelor, Madog's son, came into most of his father's territory, and dying in his castle of Dinas Bran, Llangollen, was buried at Meivod, in 1191. Gruffydd left two sons, Madog and Owain. The latter dying in 1197, the whole of Northern Powys became vested in Madog.
"Chief of Llywelyn's Northern vassals," says Professor Lloyd in his History of Wales, [pages 683-4] was Madog ap Gruffydd, whose lands stretched from the Tanat to the outskirts of Chester, the founder of Valle Crucis, the lord of Overton Castle, towering on its cliff abovet the beautiful, sinuous course of the Dee. From the Peace of Worcester until his death in 1236, when he was laid to rest in the abbey he had endowed, Madog was unswervingly faithful to his great chief and his fidelity, with the friendship of the Earls of Chester, put Llywelyn at his ease as to the security of his eastern border as far south as the rock of Carreghofa."
The seneschal and chief councillor of Prince Madog was the Lord Iorwerth of Pengwern, "the stag
(1) Mostyn MS. pedigree 1663; Dwnn, ii., p. 307; N.L.W. MS 1654 B., fo. 311; Harl. MS. 4181; Thos. Salusbury MS. (1631), xiv., fo. 57 dorso (N.L.W. MS. 1554 A). The latter MS. gives the pedigree thus: "Iorwerth foel ap Iorwerth fychan ap vychan Iorwerth ap Owain ap bleddyn ap tudor ap rees sais ap Ednyfed ap Llowarch gam ap lluddoka ap tuddor trefor," which agrees with all other MS. genealogies of this family.93

of Nanheudwy," whose lands reached Overton, and spread beyond to the fertile fields of Hanmer. He was the contemporary of Ednyfed Fychan [another ancestor], the great seneschal of Prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth; and the conduct of affairs in Wales during Llywelyn's reign must have rested largely in the hands of thse two able ministers. Iorwerth, under the designation of Iorwerth senescallo D'ni Madoci, is witness to a charter by Prince Madog ap Gruffydd to Valle Crucus, dated 1234 (1); and as Gervasio (Iorwerth) senescallo meo, to a charter of Prince Madog's son, Gruffydd, dated 1236 (2). The office appears to have been hereditary, for his son, Iorwerth Fychan, and his grandson, Iorwerth Foel, at Dinas Bran, witnessed charters of Madog's son and grandsons. Iorwerth Hên was advanced in years when Prince Madog died, and was dead, no doubt, before 1254. The likelihood is that he was buried at Valle Crucis.
Iorwerth Hên married Angharad, one of the four daughters and co-heiresses of Gruffydd ap Meilyr of Eyton, ap Elidyr ap Rhys Sais, descended from Tudur Trefor (and therefore his kinswoman), by whom he had issue (3): Iorwerth Fychan, Meilyr, Rhys, Gruffydd, Dafydd, Ynyr? (6), and Dyddgu, wife of Ieuan, son of Gruffydd of the line of the Lord Rhys, last Prince of South Wales.
(1) Cited in inspeximus charter, Arch. Camb., 1848, p. 415. Iorwerth has hitherto been wrongly identified.
(2) Cited in Hist. Powys Fadog, i., p. 168.
(3) Harl. MS. 4181, fol. 135D; Hist. Powys Fadog, i. p. 313; Dwnn, ii., p. 307. The latter authority, however, gives only Iorwerth Fychan, Meilyr, Rhys, Gruffydd, and Davydd.
(6) Among the witnesses to the charter of 1254 is a brother of the above Gruffydd whose name appears as [unreadable], which is certainly not intended for Henricus; but if correctly transcribed, may stand for Ener, for Ynyr.94

Iorwerth Hên Of Pengwern married Angharad VCH GRUFFYDD.

They had the following children:
16777216 i. Iorwerth Vychan
ii. Meilyr
iii. Rhys
iv. Gruffydd
v. Dafydd
vi. Ynyr
vii. Dyddgu

33554433 Angharad VCH GRUFFYDD.

Web Notes: One of 4 daughters and co-heiresses of Gruffydd ap Meilyr of Eyton (1), ap Elidyr ap Rhys Sais, related to her husband.
(1) Mostyn MS. pedigree 1663, Dwnn, ii., p. 307.94

33554434 Gruffydd AP LLYWELYN FAWR. (Same as ahnentafel number 16781504.)

33554435 Senena VCH CARADOC. (Same as ahnentafel number 16781505.)

33554436 Gruffydd AP HEILIN. AKA: Gruffydd Ap Brochweil.38

Child:
16777218 i. Iorwerth

33554440 Einion.

Child:
16777220 i. Madog

33554464 Gruffydd Fychan AP GRUFFYDD 1st Lord Of Glyndwrdwy.

Gruffydd Fychan married Margaret Vch Gruffydd.

They had one child:
16777232 i. Madog Grupl (-1324)

33554465 Margaret Vch Gruffydd.

33554466 Rhys Fychan AP RHYS MECHELL.  Rhys Fychan died in 1271.

Rhys Fychan married Gwladys VCH GRUFFYDD.

They had one child:
16777233 i. Margaret Vch Rhys

33554467 Gwladys VCH GRUFFYDD.

33554472 John III LE STRANGE Lord Strange Of Knockin.  Born abt 1194 in Knockyn, Salopshire, England. John III died bef 1269. Occupation: Sheriff, Constable, Justice, Lord Marcher.

John III married Lucy DE TREGOZ.

They had the following children:
16777236 i. John IV (1230-1275)
ii. Robert (~1232-1276)

33554473 Lucy DE TREGOZ.  Born abt 1210 in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, England. Lucy died in 1294 in Knockyn, Salopshire, England.

33554474 Sir Roger DE SOMERY Baron Dudley.73  Born abt 1208 in Probably Dudley, Warwick, England. Roger died bef 26 Aug 1273 in Staffordshire, England.

Abt 1225 Roger married Nichole DE AUBIGNY73, in Dudley, Staffordshire, England.

They had the following children:
16777237 i. Joan (-1282)
16780917 ii. Margaret* (~1229-1293)

33554475 Nichole DE AUBIGNY.73  Born in 1206/1210 in Camden, Gloucestershire, England. Nichole died abt 1240 in Dudley Castle, Staffordshire, England. AKA: Nicola De ALBINI.

33554560 Uchdryd AP EDWIN. AKA: Outred Of Llys, & Of Tegeingl, Flintshire, Wales.54

Uchdryd married Nest VCH LLYWELYN.

They had the following children:
16777280 i. Maredydd
ii. Goronwy54
iii. Iorwerth54
iv. Tudur54
536873090 v. Idnerth Benfras (->1110)

33554561 Nest VCH LLYWELYN.  Born abt 1080 in Denbighshire, Wales.

33554562 Ithel AP EFNYDD. AKA: Of Dyffryn, Clwyd, Denbighshire, Wales.

Ithel married Gwenllian VCH RHYS.

They had the following children:
16777505 i. Daughter Of Ithel
16777281 ii. Jonet

33554563 Gwenllian VCH RHYS. AKA: Of Denbighshire, Wales.

33554564 Iorwerth AP MADOG.  Born abt 1160. AKA: Of Tegeingl, Flintshire, Wales.

Iorwerth married Arddun VCH LLYWELYN.

They had one child:
16777282 i. Rhirid (~1190-)

33554565 Arddun VCH LLYWELYN.  Born abt 1165. AKA: Of Holywell, Flintshire, Wales.

33554566 Sir Robert PULFORD Knight. Born abt 1170. Robert died aft 1240. AKA: Of Tegeingl, Flintshire, Wales.

Child:
16777283 i. Daughter Of Robert (~1120-)

33554568 Griffri AP IEUAF. AKA: Of Denbighshire, Wales.

Child:
16777284 i. Iorwerth

33554570 Cynwrig Fychan AP CYNWRIG. AKA: Of CrstnyddCynrg, Rhiwabon, Denbighshire, Wales.

Cynwrig Fychan married Margred VCH HYWEL.

They had one child:
16777285 i. Margred

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